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Hi Jeff,<br><br>
I know all about on-line plagiarism and I used special search programs to
catch some of my dishonest students. This was in an academic
setting. <br><br>
Andreas is not your student, or Joe's, or mine. As Joe said, he did
not have an assignment from us. He did not write this for his law
school studies. The Law School Honor code does not apply on this
list.<br><br>
This is not plagiarism and you know it.<br><br>
Nick<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">Nick, <br><br>
I provided the link to the Law School Honor Code for two
reasons:<br><br>
1. So that Shoue would know what his obligations were, with respect to
law studies, so he would not make the same mistake again.<br><br>
2. It was a convenient local application of the standards of plagiarism
for those that are not familiar with.<br><br>
It is clear that you and Campbell need a refresher course on
plagiarism. It is very surprising to me that both of you are
failing to recognize that the person injured here was the author of the
source that Schoe failed to cite.<br><br>
Can I presume that the standards of plagiarism are lower for philosophy
writings. I am very surprised that an Ethics instructor would
not see the issue here.<br><br>
This event can be classified as "online plagiarism".
Wikipedia offers a comprehensive explanation:<br><br>
[
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plagiarism" eudora="autourl">
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plagiarism</a>]
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<dd><h3><b>Online plagiarism</b></h3><br>
<dd>Since it is very easy to steal content from the web by simply copying
and pasting, the problem of online plagiarism is growing.<sup>
[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki//wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed">
</a>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki//wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed"><i>
citation needed</a></i>]</sup> This phenomenon, also known as content
scraping, is affecting both established sites
<a href="#cite_note-2"><sup>[3]</a></sup> and blogs
<a href="#cite_note-3"><sup>[4]</a></sup>.
<dd>Free online tools are becoming available to help identify plagiarism
<a href="#cite_note-4"><sup>[5]</a></sup>, and there is a range of
approaches that attempt to limit online copying, such as disabling
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki//wiki/Right-click#Common_mouse_operations">
right clicking</a> and placing warning banners regarding copyrights on
web pages. Instances of plagiarism that involve copyright violation may
be addressed by the rightful content owners sending a
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki//wiki/DMCA">DMCA</a> removal notice
to the offending site-owner, or to the
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki//wiki/ISP">ISP</a> that is hosting
the offending site.
<dd>It is important to reiterate that plagiarism is not the mere copying
of text, but the presentation of another's ideas as one's own, regardless
of the specific words or constructs used to express that idea. In
contrast, many so-called plagiarism detection services can only detect
blatant word-for-word copies of text.
</dl>The cite that Schoe indicated he obtained his info from has very
clear policies about use of the material obtained from the cite. One of
those is to provide a citation for the author of the material.<br><br>
I have provided all the links. Check it out or not - I don't really
care.<br><br>
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